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Twitter and Politics
« on: February 15, 2019, 05:02:02 PM »
We all know which way Twitter leans, but man...

This morning, a guy tweets a question as to why the Bronx chick's boyfriend suddenly has a .gov email account. At around the same time, Imam Khomeini tweets a reiteration of the kill order on Salman Rushdie. Guess which one of them Twitter banned?

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/02/15/dear-jack-possible-tos-violation-detected-as-khamenei_ir-uses-twitter-to-promote-bounty-for-the-murder-of-salman-rushdie/
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Re: Twitter and Politics
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2019, 05:27:09 PM »
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
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